"the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe."

In the first three years of life, a child builds approximately 1 trillion synapses.

10 to 23 = the number of watts of power your grain generates when you’re awake (that’s enough to turn on a light bulb!)100,000 = the number of miles of blood vessels in your brain

100,000 = the number of miles of blood vessels in your brain

(enough to turn on a light bulb)

10 to 23 = the number of watts of power your grain generates when you’re awake

• Neurons send information to your brain at more than 150 miles per hour

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And like the muscles in your arms, they can literally grow…

With sustained effort, learning changes the brain…

The key point being…

“…a person’s true potential is unknown (and unknowable); it’s impossible to foresee what can be accomplished with years of passion, toil, and training.”

Carol DweckMindset (7)

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Nobody can tell you how smart you can get, what you might one day be able to do…

“I never thought of myself as a very smart person. I just stuck with problems longer.”

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein nearly failed out of school.

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. “

Helen Keller

With the help of a determined teacher, Helen Keller became the first deaf and blind person to graduate from college.

“Creativity is 1 percent inspiration and 99% perspiration.”

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison nearly failed third grade.

“Don’t be afraid to fail, be afraid not to try.”

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan was cut fromhis high school basketball team. His response: He worked harder.

What is our capacity to learn?

“With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment, and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.”

Alfred BinetFather of the IQ test

Can we really all learn?

“After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.”

Benjamin S. Bloom Father of the Taxonomy of Learning

Bloom is talking about the 95%...

Mindsets

Intelligenceis static

Protect my image

Minimize effort

Intelligence can grow

Learn without fear

Maximize effort

Fixed Mindset

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Growth Mindset

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